Effective transfer of safety interventions within and between organizations: Leveraging translation theory to achieve improved outcomes

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dc.contributor.authorPilbeam, Colin
dc.contributor.authorKaranikas, Nektarios
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-10T08:46:16Z
dc.date.available2023-10-10T08:46:16Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-21
dc.description.abstractSafety interventions are often ‘borrowed’ from one organizational setting, where they have worked successfully, to another organizational setting but not necessarily with the same positive outcomes. Translation theory could offer potential insights into the processes through which managers translate safety practices either from one organization to another or from one part to another part of the same organization. To examine this possibility, this study used the framework method of analysis, underpinned by a conceptual framework developed from translation theory, to analyse qualitative data from interviews with experienced managers having responsibility for safety in their organization who shared narratives of eight different safety interventions deployed in a variety of industry sectors ranging from oil and gas to retail from around the world. By inference from the data, analysis shows that interventions of low complexity, low embeddedness and high explicitness which theory characterises as more translatable, were also in practice more successfully translated. Furthermore, interventions with senior management support had higher levels of interpretive viability, thus making them more transformable and ensuring translation success. Also, translations were more successful when the safety interventions received adequate resourcing, were targeted at a narrow rather than a broad organizational scope and where they were integrated into existing work practices. The conceptual elements of the framework adopted in this study have the potential to support the development of translation competence among safety professionals, thus permitting the future deployment of more effective safety interventions in the workplace to reduce accidents and injuries.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationPilbeam C, Karanikas N. (2023) Effective transfer of safety interventions within and between organizations: leveraging translation theory to achieve improved outcomes. Safety Science, Volume 168, December 2023, Article number 106318en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0925-7535
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106318
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/20353
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectContexten_UK
dc.subjecttranslation competenceen_UK
dc.subjecttransformabilityen_UK
dc.subjecttranslatabilityen_UK
dc.subjectsafety interventionsen_UK
dc.titleEffective transfer of safety interventions within and between organizations: Leveraging translation theory to achieve improved outcomesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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